sergeantfish

[sahr-juhnt-fish]

ser·geant·fish

[sahr-juhnt-fish]
noun, plural (especially collectively) ser·geant·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) ser·geant·fish·es.
1.
the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
2.
any of various other marine fishes with striped fins.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism; sergeant + fish; so called from the striped fins
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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